I got to interview Jason Mabie!!! Who's your daddy? Well, not me. That would be impossible, but it was awesome! The interview is posted. Just click on the Jason's Interview page.

P.S. - I recall the first interaction I had w/ Jason Mabie on YouTube was when I knew the answer to the faq : Where's the 8th guy. I was still pretty new to YouTube, but I had seen Kenny's answer posted somewhere and I wanted the person who asked to have an accurate answer, because people were saying that the cameraman was the eighth guy, or that he was sick, or that there were 8 guys singing. Researching and reporting is kinda what I do. Some people like it, some don't. (The pat answer is that Brandon, one of the Octet dudes, dropped out of the group in order to focus on his studies). After I replied, 'gobears236' posted that he had recently hung out with Brandon. Not knowing who gobears236 was, or even that Berkeley had anything to do with the Bears, I was like "That's nice. Give him a hug/kiss for me". As I was going back over the older posts, I was like "Oh, wow, that was really Jason Mabie from the Octet?!?! He's on YouTube, and I'm a doofus!"

Okay, so here's the story. If you hear anything different: they're lying.

So, I've been 'on the road' for the past few weeks, staying with friends and family until school starts. The reason: hanging out at your friends house (in dinky Salem, Oregon) is cheaper than a month's rent in Seattle. It's also great because I haven't seen most of my friends, face to face, in over a year!

During this love fest that is couch hopping and road trips, I have failed to keep up with the website. Let's just say that this is going to be a habit. Hope that people will keep me up on this webpage if they notice it's been awhile since I've posted. Now on to the video.

Staying alive is the video version of Paxil. At one point, I sent it to my friend Connie who lives out of state and was having an absolutely crappy day. I sent this video to her via facebook, and this made her smile. My aunt Val also thought it was fantastic! Gave it a nice "like it" thumb.

I love Jordan and Parker's falsetto during the song. The guys are awesome dancers and I believe, though I could be wrong, that these guys STUDIED "Saturday Night Fever". The fact that they are able to sing and dance with such engery is increadible. I would be curled up in the corner, wheezing out a death rattle...It must have been a wonderful aerobic workout for them.

Jerome, Jason and especially Kenny rocked their solo dance moves! On this video the choreo was on par with the a cappella.

It started here and only got worse!

The thing which brought me back to the blog is some jerk on YouTube - thomansinnorway- a weight lifter who fancies himself a little too much, perhaps. He aparently has some sort of fixation with being an inappropriate ass. On thecomment forum for Bohemain Rhapsody video and made several rude comments about the guys. I posted one comment. Believe me, it got worse. The guy's a jerk and I should have just ignored the comment. In private messages, he proved to be more of a jerk. Why did I bother? I guess I felt the need to defend the Octet's honor...or something.